Vacancies in a Cement Manufacturing Company for Factory Management Accountants
Stresert Services Limited - Our client, a Cement
Manufacturing organization, is seeking to recruit suitably qualified
candidates for the position below:
Job Title: Factory Management Accountant
Locations: Sagamu & Calabar.
Slots: 2
Job Purpose
- The Factory Management Accountant is responsible for the
analysis of plant performance, the review of performance reports to
ensure that they are complete and accurate and also ensure that
appropriate controls are applied to information provided by the plant on
performance and on inventory of both Raw materials and supplies.
Job Summary
- General and management accounting
- Budgeting and Budgetary Control
- Works imprest management
- Analysis of operational costs
Main Activities/Responsibilities
- Performs detailed analysis of plant performance highlighting
variances to key performance indicators and undertakes review of plant
reports to ensure consistency of information with other reports e.g.
monthly production reports, advance downtime analysis program (ADAP)
reports, costing tool report etc.
- Undertakes root cause analysis to variances and presenting
explanations to variances of key performance indicators compared to plan
and advising management on corrective actions and enable decision
making.
- Monitors the robustness of the plant control environment and
drive any necessary corrective actions to ensure compliance with group
policies and procedures. This involves close liaison with Internal Audit
section on risk assessments and audit recommendations.
- Provide analysis to support decision making on plant investment
project requests to ensure financial viability, consistency with BU
strategy and plant improvement plans and compliance with group rules.
- Supports internal and external benchmarking with plants within
and outside the business unit in order to identify best practices for
implementation at the plant.
- Generate and review information in the group databases to ensure accuracy of inputs and as a benchmark with other plants.
- Provides input to the Plant and Business Unit (BU) performance
management cycle including budget/ monthly & quarterly forecasts to
ensure that the business objectives are reflected in the same.
Challenge and ensure clear action plans are in place to ensure validity
of the planning processes to deliver budget, Performance Improvement
Plans & strategic plans for the BU.
- Delivers timely and accurate reports required by the Plant and
BU management that are compliant with financial accounting procedures
and legal requirements. These reports include cost of production
reports, fixed cost reports etc.
- Evaluate and challenge stock replenishments which are determined
by user departments and planning teams in maintenance and
production/process.
- Track evolution of key stock balances and obtain explanations
for significant movement in balances and exceptions while giving
adequacy of provisioning.
- Coordinate monthly stock and closing meetings and report on status of action points and give update on evolution of balances.
Role Requirements
Education:
- Chartered Accountant (ACA, ACCA, ACTI )
- Bachelors Degree in Accounting
- 6 years experience as a Management Accountant in a manufacturing firm
Technical:
- Good knowledge of financial analysis
- Good knowledge of general accounting rules and processes applied in the company
- Good computer knowledge, exposure to an ERP environment (At
present, the Plant’s General ledger and the Inventory run on JDEdwards
ERP while the staff Payroll runs on Human Manager) and advanced
reporting tools and very good knowledge of Microsoft office
applications.
- Basic knowledge of semi-finished and end products of processes from quarry to dispatch.
- High level of analytical and performance management skills and ability to pay attention to detail.
- Knowledge of collective agreement and internal administration rules.
- Good project and change management skills.
Managerial:
- Good planning and organizational skills.
- Good reporting, communication and presentation skills.
- Ability to mobilize people and inspire them towards a common ambition and better results
- The ability to take responsibility for one's own performance, by
setting clear goals and expectations, tracking progress against the
goals, ensuring feedback, and addressing performance problems and issues
promptly.
- The ability to demonstrate support for innovation and for
organizational changes needed to improve the organization's
effectiveness.
- Faith in one's own ideas and capability to be successful
- Ability to lead by example and foster effective team work
- The ability to develop, maintain, and strengthen partnerships
with others inside or outside the organization who can provide
information, assistance, and support
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should forward their CV's to:
[email protected] using ‘Location _ MA’ as subject of mail e.g ‘Sagamu_MA’ or ‘Calabar_MA’ .
Application Deadline: 10th May, 2017.